Contemporary Scenes for Student Actors

Compiles more than eighty scenes by such modern playwrights as Williams, Slade, Miller, Zindel, and Feiffer for two men, two women, and one man and one woman

Acknowledgments

11

(10)

Preface

21

(2)

How to Approach a Scene

23

(16)

Part I---Scenes for One Man and One Woman

39

(186)

Lovers and Other Strangers

41

(5)

Renee Taylor

Joseph Bologna

A Streetcar Named Desire

46

(7)

Tennessee Williams

Two for the Seesaw

53

(7)

William Gibson

Gemini

60

(4)

Albert Innaurato

I Never Sang for My Father

64

(2)

Robert Anderson

Sexual Perversity in Chicago

66

(2)

David Mamet

The Lion in Winter

68

(4)

James Goldman

The Crucible

72

(4)

Arthur Miller

The Owl and the Pussycat

76

(5)

Bill Manhoff

Same Time, Next Year

81

(5)

Bernard Slade

Kingdom of Earth

86

(6)

Tennessee Williams

Thieves

92

(5)

Herb Gardner

Otherwise Engaged

97

(5)

Simon Gray

Golden Boy

102

(4)

Clifford Odets

The Great White Hope

106

(5)

Howard Sackler

A Cry of Players

111

(6)

William Gibson

Butterflies Are Free

117

(4)

Leonard Gershe

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

121

(5)

William Inge

The Tenth Man

126

(6)

Paddy Chayefsky

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

132

(4)

Mark Medoff

27 Wagons Full of Cotton

136

(6)

Tennessee Williams

Hello Out There

142

(3)

William Saroyan

The House of Blue Leaves

145

(5)

John Guare

The Sea Horse

150

(6)

Edward J. Moore

Serenading Louie

156

(3)

Landford Wilson

The Trip Back Down

159

(3)

John Bishop

Moony's Kid Don't Cry

162

(5)

Tennessee Williams

6 RMS RIV VU

167

(4)

Bob Randall

Dirty Hands

171

(2)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Lionel Abel

The Goodbye People

173

(6)

Herb Gardner

You Know I can't Hear You When the Water's Running

179

(5)

Robert Anderson

Days of Wine and Roses

184

(3)

JP Miller

Did You Ever Go to P.S. 43?

187

(10)

Michael Schulman

The Only Game in Town

197

(4)

Frank D. Gilroy

The Subject Was Roses

201

(3)

Frank D. Gilroy

At Home

204

(6)

Conrad Bromberg

The Tiger

210

(5)

Murray Schisgal

Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer

215

(10)

Jason Miller

Part II---Scenes for Two Women

225

(74)

In the Boom Boom Room

227

(3)

David Rabe

Hello from Bertha

230

(4)

Tennessee Williams

The Miracle Worker

234

(4)

William Gibson

The Killing of Sister George

238

(5)

Frank Marcus

Antigone

243

(4)

Jean Anouilh

Lewis Galantiere

The Children's Hour

247

(4)

Lillian Hellman

Curse of the Starving Class

251

(3)

Sam Shepard

Moonchildren

254

(3)

Michael Weller

Father's Day

257

(5)

Oliver Hailey

The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker

262

(7)

William Snyder

The Bad Seed

269

(3)

Maxwell Anderson

No Exit

272

(4)

Jean-Paul Sartre

Stuart Gilbert

Ladies at the Alamo

276

(4)

Paul Zindel

The Girl on the Via Flaminia

280

(4)

Alfred Hayes

The Gingham Dog

284

(3)

Lanford Wilson

Patio/Porch

287

(4)

Jack Heifner

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

291

(8)

Paul Zindel

Part III---Scenes for Two Men

299

(134)

American Buffalo

301

(2)

David Mamet

A View from the Bridge

303

(5)

Arthur Miller

Equus

308

(10)

Peter Shaffer

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

318

(3)

David Rabe

Play It Again, Sam

321

(3)

Woody Allen

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

324

(5)

Tennessee Williams

Butley

329

(8)

Simon Gray

A Man for All Seasons

337

(4)

Robert Bolt

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

341

(4)

Dale Wasserman

Short Eyes

345

(3)

Miguel Pifiero

Luv

348

(6)

Murray Schisgal

A Thousand Clowns

354

(4)

Herb Gardner

Becket (or The Honour of God)

358

(4)

Jean Anouilh

Lucienne Hill

Streamers

362

(4)

David Rabe

Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?

366

(6)

Don Petersen

A Hatful of Rain

372

(5)

Michael V. Gazzo

The Boys in the Band

377

(3)

Mart Crowley

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

380

(4)

Lorraine Hansberry

Inherit the Wind

384

(4)

Jerome Lawrence

Robert E. Lee

The Wager

388

(5)

Mark Medoff

Hogan's Goat

393

(9)

William Alfred

Knock Knock

402

(5)

Jules Feiffer

Count Dracula

407

(2)

Ted Tiller

The Creation of the World and Other Business

409

(5)

Arthur Miller

Family Business

414

(5)

Dick Goldberg

The Private Ear

419

(8)

Peter Shaffer

Deathtrap

427

(6)

Ira Levin

Index

433

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